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Nicholls, Paul Travis – Information Processing and Management, 1988
Presents Price's law, which states that half of the literature on a subject will be contributed by the square root of total number of authors publishing in that area, and assesses it against empirical evidence and simulated productivity distributions. The discussion covers this law's relation to Lotka's law and its empirical validity. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Hypothesis Testing, Mathematical Models, Proof (Mathematics)
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Loughner, William – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1992
Corrects an error in the calculation of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) statistic when it is used to empirically confirm or deny the generalized Lotka's law. Examples from the literature are given of both correct and incorrect uses of the KS test and Lotka equations with cumulative distribution functions (CDFs). (six references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Computation, Goodness of Fit, Hypothesis Testing, Literature Reviews
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Hummel, Thomas J. – 1993
Tables for testing clinical hypotheses about counseling clients are presented, and their use is described. Primary uses are determining a critical value or cutoff score on a predictor that can be used to classify an individual as a member of a clinical group, and instructing those unfamiliar with the limitations of tests about the conditions under…
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Counseling, Counselors